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Glen and Cindy on the Web

Quick video that shows how I set up to test a DSP board that someone has sent me for ‘repair.’ Often, the problem is not with the DSP board, so my first test is to see if it is actually working or not.

“Spinoza’s Dream” – Dave Nachmanoff Dave Nachmanoff writes and performs thoughtful and thought provoking music that is just a joy to listen to. His songs are the songs of life and living. His latest CD is a series of songs that are themed on various philosophers through time. All of this is done without getting …

“Joe’s Ex-Girlfriends” – Carla Ulbrich I’m not sure if Carla Ulbrich should be classified as a comedian first and a musician second or the other way around. Her songs are relevant to the ironies of modern life and give a pause to stop and look at what kind of a mess we make of ourselves. …

“I Won’t Cry” – Janiva Magness There hasn’t been a female Blues singer that has gone straight to my heart like Janiva since Janis Joplin teamed up with Big Brother and the Holding Company to make “Cheap Thrills” She is the best that this century has seen. Just WOW and more WOW. If you even …

This page contains links to my collection of Vypyr schematics, photographs, and illustrations. Please leave a comment if you find these useful. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE If you have any pictures if the inside chassis of any of the Vypyr amps that I don’t have here please send a copy to Vypyr Schematics. Also, any missing …

The Colbert Homestead

Glen and Cindy on VACATION

This web site is just a place for us to organize and share information and ideas that we have and come up with. Please check out the blogs tab above for articles that we have written regarding items of interest at the moment. We also share our little music projects and videos (some of them music videos, some of them just informational) which are also available from the menu tabs above.

One of our favorite things to do is to attend musical performances in small venues like The Rams Head or The Birchmire (See links on right panel). We strongly recommend that people support performance art at places like this. It is a wonderful way to get to know the music and the artists better.

Even better than small venue concerts are “Home Concerts.” At a home (or house) concert you invite 20-30 of your friends and neighbors into your living room (or family room or whatever) to enjoy a personal performance by a musician. We have hosted a few of these and have to say that they are the most wonderful way to experience music. Participants contribute something on the order of $20 per person to the performer and in return get an incredible personalized performance.

We are also experimenting with on-line concerts. There are a few blogs on this site that explore and recommend on-line performances. While this is still a developing performance medium it has significant potential and is well worth spending time exploring.

Cindy started playing the guitar a couple of years ago, so a lot of the posts on this page are related to her posting music for the Grand kids. Recording music and trying to make it presentable has turned out to be a rather fun hobby. While neither of us are very talented, it is an extremely enjoyable thing to do and we encourage others to give it a shot.

We live in Unincorporated Baltimore County and try to take advantage of the unique travel opportunities that are available in this area. It is a relatively easy drive to the National Mall in Washington D.C. (particularly on Saturday and Sunday Mornings when there isn’t any traffic). The museums and historic places here are just incredible.

Detecting BS BS, crapola, Horse-pucky, nonsense, tutti-frutti, whatever you call it, it is everywhere. In the age of the internet, completely incorrect information based on nothing more than somebody’s desire to sell you something is everywhere. The entire 2012 doomsday hoax is made up of BS. In this page we hope to arm you with …

Check out the various video projects and some of our favorite videos. Glen’s Videos Canadian Railroad Trilogy House at Pooh Corner Ghost Riders Almost Heaven (Country Roads) Keep on Tryin’ Song for a Winter’s Night Glen and Cindy Videos Bedtime Story for Stella (The Pony Man) The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Xander Song Videos …

“Spinoza’s Dream” – Dave Nachmanoff Dave Nachmanoff writes and performs thoughtful and thought provoking music that is just a joy to listen to. His songs are the songs of life and living. His latest CD is a series of songs that are themed on various philosophers through time. All of this is done without getting …

“Joe’s Ex-Girlfriends” – Carla Ulbrich I’m not sure if Carla Ulbrich should be classified as a comedian first and a musician second or the other way around. Her songs are relevant to the ironies of modern life and give a pause to stop and look at what kind of a mess we make of ourselves. …

“I Won’t Cry” – Janiva Magness There hasn’t been a female Blues singer that has gone straight to my heart like Janiva since Janis Joplin teamed up with Big Brother and the Holding Company to make “Cheap Thrills” She is the best that this century has seen. Just WOW and more WOW. If you even …

Circe lets loose the hounds It isn’t often that a pretty, talented lead singer lets her backups’s have a shot at the limelight. Rachel Wolf and Laura Drew are just perfect backing Circe up. Their harmonies capture all of the beauty and spunk of The Andrews Sisters with the overtones of Mary Ford. Then she …

After 30 years of Cakewalk’s long and illustrious history, I am saddened to announce that we ceased new product development and reduced overall operations this past Friday. You can read the formal announcement from Gibson here, which states that this decision was made in order to align with the company’s acquisition strategy, focused on growth […]

Dear Kirk Hammett, We just read this Loudwire article that you already have about five hundred ideas for the next Metallica album. We’re SUPER excited about that! We also know that you lost your phone a few years ago—and along with it, 250 ideas. That must have sucked so friggin hard. 🙁 This time, we would […]

After seeing Vancouver’s own “Payolas” at the age of 15, singer songwriter, guitarist and sound designer Cory Hawthorne knew he wanted to become a musician. 2 weeks later he bought his first guitar, a no name Les Paul copy and it changed the rest of his life. He went on from there to get a […]

Mix Recall is a powerful way to organize mixes within a project—Whether you want to have a mix without vocals or a version of the song using a different processing chain on the drums—Mix Recall is the perfect solution for these types of situations, but it can do more than that. Say you are handed […]

TH3 Cakewalk edition allows for anybody with SONAR to have access to amazing guitar tones. It comes with loads of amps, cabinets, effects and even allows for changing the position of the mic. If you want to do stereo processing of effects to create a stereo delays or parallel processing by mixing two amps together, […]

Melodyne is not only a great way to tune vocals and still maintain their musical quality it can also be used for several other unique purposes like creating a tempo map from a live audio recording or extracting MIDI from audio. In this tutorial, we’ll be looking at using Melodyne to make things multiply for […]

Through blood, sweat and tears you’ve overcome obstacles to reach a level of success that you’re proud of. We want to hear your stories, and with your permission, we’d like to share them with our community. We will not publish any of this information without your permission. If your story is selected, we will reach […]

It’s a cloudy summer morning in Dallas, TX, and Norman Matthew is crawling back into his SONAR Studio seemingly picking up where he left off a year ago, July 2016. During that month in 2016 on TX Interstate 10, his previous band Murder FM found themselves road-challenged and entangled in an accident in their tour […]

Hey everyone! Cakewalk & Jamstik+ have teamed up again, this time to bring you the Jamstik+ & Sonar Artist Bundle! In addition, our good friend Craig Anderton released custom presets for Rapture Session as a bonus download included in the bundle. Jamstik+ sound-pack for Rapture Session includes 11 instrument types & all of the presets curated from Rapture […]

[Links to building the sound panels below] Time flies when you’re having fun the old cliché saying goes. For me, five years ago, I was in the trenches for a good week going down a rabbit hole not knowing exactly where I would end up. I’m talking about sound panels – building sound panels that […]